Health Fact or Fiction: You Can Get Drunk by Dipping Your Feet in Alcohol

Have you heard the one about getting drunk from dipping your feet into a bath of alcohol? Does it work? Researchers tested it (some study, huh!?) and have an answer for would-be foot bathers (or shall I say, boozers)...

So, can you get buzzed from dipping your feet in booze? Until I came across a recent study from scientists in Denmark, I had no idea that anyone ever considered doing this! But, seriously, researchers put the concept to the test and the verdict?

Nope!

Study participants submerged their feet in vodka for three hours while researchers checked their blood alcohol levels, which did not rise, nor did they show signs of intoxication.

The research stemmed from a popular myth circulating among European college students about being able to get drunk via your feet. Um, I didn't hear about this in college--did you?